Luis Castillo hummed a meatball right down the middle to Nolan Arenado in the Bottom of the 1st, a pitch that by all accounts split the strike zone down the middle - and across the middle - as well as one could. Home plate umpire Tom Hallion had other ideas, however, and what sure as heck looked like the called third strike that would end that PA was called a ball.
As fate - or, as typical Cincinnati Reds fate - would have it, the very next pitch changed the game for the worse, as Arenado lifted a looper into shallow RF and turned on the frustrations for the Reds Friday night.